Xinhua All Media + 丨 @ Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, "The 14th Five-Year Plan to Promote the Development Of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises" is coming

Beijing, 17 Dec (Xinhua) -- A reporter learned from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on the 17th that the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, together with 19 departments and units such as the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Science and Technology, and the Ministry of Finance, issued the "14th Five-Year Plan to Promote the Development plan for small and medium-sized enterprises", and strive to steadily improve the overall development quality of small and medium-sized enterprises by 2025, and significantly improve their innovation ability and professional level. Promote the formation of one million innovative small and medium-sized enterprises, 100,000 "specialized and special new" small and medium-sized enterprises, and 10,000 specialized and special new "small giant" enterprises.

Small and medium-sized enterprises are an important support for China's economic resilience and employment resilience, and an important force for stimulating innovation. Promoting the development of small and medium-sized enterprises is crucial to promoting high-quality development.

The plan clearly states that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, small and medium-sized enterprises are in a period of important strategic opportunities, with the theme of promoting the high-quality development of small and medium-sized enterprises, focusing on the three areas of "policy system, service system and development environment", focusing on the two key points of "alleviating the financing difficulties and expensive financing of small and medium-sized enterprises, and strengthening the protection of the legitimate rights and interests of small and medium-sized enterprises", focusing on the goal of "improving the innovation ability and professional level of small and medium-sized enterprises", and further enhancing the comprehensive strength and core competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology held a press conference to interpret the "14th Five-Year Plan" to promote the development plan of small and medium-sized enterprises. Courtesy of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology

The plan puts forward 5 goals, 7 tasks and 9 major projects to promote the development of small and medium-sized enterprises during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, forming a work chain from macro to concrete. Among them, the 7 tasks include cultivating and expanding market players, improving the policy support system, establishing an efficient service system, improving the fair playing field, improving the availability of financing, strengthening the protection of legitimate rights and interests, and improving the ability to innovate and professionalism.

The 9 major projects include the project of cultivating high-quality small and medium-sized enterprises, the project of improving the innovation ability and professional level of small and medium-sized enterprises, the project of improving the ability of small and medium-sized enterprise service institutions, the financing promotion project of small and medium-sized enterprises, the project of safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of small and medium-sized enterprises, the project of promoting the digitalization of small and medium-sized enterprises, the project of promoting the green development of small and medium-sized enterprises, the project of improving the quality brand of small and medium-sized enterprises, and the project of promoting the internationalization of small and medium-sized enterprises.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said that by 2025, the research and development expenditure of small industrial enterprises above designated size will increase by more than 10% per year, the number of patent applications will increase by more than 10% per year, and the number of effective invention patents will increase by more than 15% per year. Cultivate 200 characteristic industrial clusters of small and medium-sized enterprises and 10 Cooperation Zones for Chinese and foreign small and medium-sized enterprises, integrate innovation of large and medium-sized enterprises, and develop in depth the collaborative innovation of industry, education and research, and continuously improve the innovation ecology of small and medium-sized enterprises.